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No. 325,894. Patented Sept. 8, 1885.

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WITNESSES: K m KW v i Q BY ATTORNEYS,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELI I-I. W'OOD, OF CHERRY VALLEY, MISSOURI.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,894, datedSeptember 8, 1885.

Application filed August 30, 1884.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELI H. WOOD, of Cherry Valley, in the county ofCrawford and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved.

Churn, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention consists in the combination, with a cream box or tub and aframe on which it is held, of a rocking shaft having a segmental rack onone end and a cross-piece on the other, the ends of the cross-piecebeing connecied by connecting -rods with footlevers pivoted on theframe, and the segmental rack engaging with a bevel pinion formed on theupper end of a shaft journalcd in the top plate of the frame, and havingits lower end forked to receive the upper end of the dasher-shaft.

The invention also consists in parts and details and combinations of thesame, as will be fully set forth hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is aside elevation of my improved churn. Fig. 2 is a rearelevation of the same with the lower part of the tub broken out. Fig. 3is a sectional plan view of the tab.

In a top plate, A, supported by legs B. a short vertical shaft, 0, isjournaled, which has its lower end forked to receive the tongued upperend of a vertical shaft, D, journaled in the cover E of the cream tub orbox F, resting on the base G of the churn-frame.

The shafts O and D are coupled by a pin, H, and the cover E is providedwith slitted straps T, for fastening the cover by means of headed studsI, projecting laterally from the side of the tub near the top.

On the upper end of the shaft 0 a bevelpinion, J, is rigidly mounted,which engages with a bevel segmental rack, K, formed on the edge of asector-shaped plate, L, mounted rigidly on one end ofa horizontalrook-shaft, M,

5 journaled in standards N on the top plate, A.-

A cross-piece, 0., is secured on that end of the shaft-M opposite theone on which the plate L is mounted, and the ends of the saidcross-piece O are connected by connecting- (No model.) 1

rods P with two foot levers or treadles, Q, pivoted to the legs of theframe and projecting from the front end of the frame, the said treadlesbeing so arranged that one is lowered when the other is raised.

The lower end of the dasher-shaft D is pref-- erably journaled in thebottom of the tub, and on the dasher-shaft the vertical wings R aresecured.

Four vertical ribs, S, arranged about equidistant, project from theinner surface of the tub F, for the purpose of interrupting the circularor vortex movement of the cream.

To operate the churn, the operator stands on the two foot-levers Q anddepresses them alternately, whereby the shaft M will be revolvedalternately in opposite directions. The plate L swings in oppositedirections and, by means of the bevel-pinion J, revolves the dasheralternately in opposite directions.

To remove the tub F, the pin H is removed, and the shaft D is uncoupledfrom the shaft 0, thus permitting of sliding the tub F laterally andfrom under the shaft C.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is,

1. In a churn, the combination, with the plate A, the legs B, and thecream box or tub F, of the shaft M, the cross-piece O, the footlevers Q,the connectingrods P, the segmentrack K, the pinion J, and the shaft 0,journaled in the plate A and connected with the dasher, substantially asherein shown and dcscribed.

2. In a churn, the combination, with the plate A, the legs B, and thecream box or tub F, of the shaft M, the cross-piece O, the footlevers Q,the connecting-rods P, the segmental rack K, the shaft 0, journaled inthe plate A and having its lower end forked, the bevelpinion J on theshaft 0, and the dasher having its shaft connected with the forked endof the shaft 0, substantially as herein shown and described.

ELI H. WOOD. Witnesses:

L. H. Soorr, A. W. J OHNSON.

